A close view of the port fore part of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cruise ship Strathnaver (1931) moored in Grand Harbour, Malta. The photographer is in a boat standing off the port side looking forward and to starboard showing an accommodation ladder rigged to a shell door amidships with boats alongside it. Some of the lower portholes have windscoops fitted. Some of the crew in swimwear are on the boat boom and the boat ladder. Some dghaisas are in the foreground. The bow of a Royal Navy London class heavy cruiser of the 1st Cruiser Squadron is in the background and beyond it is Ricasoli. The negative is captioned "Disembarking at Malta".